Drivers for the Future Networks
Franck Bouetard
ericsson
9.3 billion Mobile subscriptions
end 2019
Mobile subscriptions by technology, 2010-2019
M2M subscriptions not included
10 times Mobile data Traffic by
end of 2019
Mobile data traffic growth
fueled by video
50B connected devices changing
people’s lifes and industries
50 B devices
› Smart grids
› Automotive
› Transport
› Waste Mgmt
5 B people
› Agriculture
1 B places
› Health
Technological drivers for
future internet
Mobility
QoS
management
Broadband
Cloud
Convergent
consumer
services
5G industry-METIS consortium
› METIS = Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-twenty
Information Society
› Objective: Develop a concept for future mobile and wireless communications system that
supports the connected information society
› EU Consortium (29 partners) initiated and led by Ericsson
– ALU, Huawei, Nokia, NSN, DoCoMo, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Telecom
Italia, Telefonica, BMW, Elektrobit, Academia
Exploring new system
concepts,…
2012
2013
2014
Pre-standardization
activities
2015
2016
2017
Standardization
activities
2018
2019
2020
Beyond
2020
systems
METIS project Objectives
5G
=
evolution of
existing standards
+
complementary
new technologies
Cloud FOR TELCO OPERATOR
Public Cloud
IT Cloud
Telco Cloud
PURPOSE
services to final
customer (mainly
Enterprise), Providing
all XaaS
PURPOSE
consolidation of
Internal IT Domain.
Cloud for OSS/BSS
and OTHER IT
Application
PURPOSE
Cloud for Telco
workloads,
distributed
applications and
consolidation of
3PP Telco
workloads
Appl.3
Network
”SDN”
Core
Agg
Edge
Yesterday
Split architecture,
Multi applications
Control
Forwarding
Today
High Touch
Packet
Processing
Tomorrow
3PP
IT…
Appl.
1
Appl.
2
BSS
OSS
Contr
ol
IT…
IT…
Appl.2
BSS
Appl.1
OSS
BSS
Support Systems, IT Systems…
OSS
Telco cloud:
network virtualization
Conclusion: drivers for the future networks
 Mobility
 Video traffic
 50B connected devices
 High speed access (LTE, 5G)
 Network Cloud
 QoS